Every school has things that need to be done, acknowledged, approved or completed. – Cúntas Míosúils. – Child Protection checklists. – Policy acknowledgements. – Timetable uploads. – Risk assessments. – Even deciding where to go for the staff night out! 🎉 Riabo brings them all together in one place. For

For years we’ve added more and more work to teaching. Now AI is forcing a different question. Not “Can AI help?” but: What work simply isn’t worth doing manually any more? Should teachers still: ▶️ Write reports from scratch? ▶️ Plan every lesson from a blank page? ▶️ Differentiate worksheets

As a practising primary school principal, I found myself spending more and more of my week trying to remember what I had asked people to do. Had everyone uploaded their Cúntas Míosúil? Who still needed a reminder about Child Protection records? Which School Support Plans were finished, and which had

Something came up repeatedly when I asked about training for Special Education Teachers. Several teachers told me that they learned much of what they know about special education after qualifying, often from experienced colleagues or through courses they pursued themselves. One comment put it simply: “You have to see it

Should every child have to learn Irish? 🇮🇪 Irish is one of the most distinctive parts of our education system. For some, it is a vital part of our culture and identity. For others, compulsory Irish has become a source of frustration that takes time away from other learning. Supporters

A few weeks ago I asked why there is no specialist training required to become a Special Education Teacher. One of the responses challenged the premise of my question: Why should SETs be specialists at all? Children with dyslexia, autism, language difficulties, emotional needs and other additional needs spend most

I had a busy morning on the radio last week discussing the length of the school day on RTE Radio 1, as well as Newstalk, Midlands Radio and a bunch of other stations around the country. A friend of mine contacted me to tell me he heard me on Northern

Riabo comes from Obair: the Irish word for work, but written backwards. The name is a playful nod to helping our work move forwards, even if the letters go the other way. It’s a little joke that only makes sense once someone points it out. More importantly, I hope it